Tucson school board votes to do away with Mexican American studies program
The school district in Tucson voted Tuesday to dismantle its Mexican American Studies program that had left critics wondering what exactly the course taught participating students.Wow. It wasted money, served a tiny percentage of the school population, was poorly defined, and they cut it anyways? Toto, I don't think we're in Massachusetts any more! It's heartening to see that there's still some modicum of common sense somewhere in America; that there are still holdouts to fiscal prudence over feel-good do-nothing PC bullshit. The natural protests abound, including violence threatened against the Hispanic board member who voted to kill the program - of course, accused of being a sellout, because he should naturally support the program because of his ancestry, right?
“There was no clear curriculum and it currently serves less than 1 percent of Tucson students,” Andrew Le Fevre, a spokesman for superintendent of public instruction, said. He said the classes were poorly supervised and students would get extra credit for things like attending protests and bringing family members along.
Not be judged by the color of their skin - or their heritage - indeed.
That is all.
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4 comments:
Wow. Good decision
After reading some of the stories you post here (not the ones with a happy ending, like this one) it makes me glad to live in the district I do. They still have to implement the New York State Board of Shi.. um, Regents requirements, but most everything else seems to have some common sense behind it.
You give the TUSD school board too much credit. They were forced to close down the course because it violated state law that prohibited courses that were designed primarily for students of one ethic group or race. What they were voting on was whether they should acquiesce or authorize funds to fight it in federal court. (They had already fought it in court at the state level and lost.)
Armed Texan got it right - the TUSD imply chose not to fight in federal court because of the anticipated costs. There are several other 'advocacy' groups that seem ready to take up the case, though, so we'll see. This thing is a huge political football out here.
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